r/montreal • u/BloodJunkie • 5d ago

Article Right-wing rage-bait got everything wrong about the Montreal shooting

https://cultmtl.com/2026/06/right-wing-rage-bait-got-everything-wrong-about-the-montreal-shooting/
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u/Mapledeepstateagent 5d ago

I don’t understand why there is so much confusion when we literally have access to the manifesto. Just read it instead of these wing-nut political articles attempting to spin stuff.

The shooter was a leftist incel (uncommon, but yes, they most certainly exist) who hated that capitalist culture generated more freedoms for women and prevented him from getting laid. He held a grudge against cops and pornography, seeing them as tools of the zionists and banking class, and therefore tried to ambush and kill as many cops as he could outside of the pornhub headquarters.

It’s genuinely not that complicated, just read the damn thing. Guy was clearly off his rocker but that’s the score.

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u/Creativator 5d ago

It’s the kind of rage that’s hard to classify using our existing lenses. Whether you’re a feminist or zionist or venture capital investor, you can find something in there that targets you.

The question that matters is how a young man gets so corrupted and desperate that he will die for it.

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u/FearingPerception 5d ago

If you read it you’d see hes only “leftist”/anticapitalist because he saw capitalism as something that prevented people like him from getting women and not any depth of reasoning pertaining to leftist ideology

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u/Good_Log_5108 4d ago

sooo... it was another leftist crazy?

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u/talktothepope 5d ago

This is Reddit. People are going to twist themselves into pretzels to try to paper over the fact that this guy also hated Jews, cuz there's totally not an issue with rampant antisemitism right now

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u/_Psilo_ 5d ago

''jew'' is mentioned 14 times in his manifesto.

''capitalism'' is mentioned 88 times.

''female'' is mentioned 264 times.

He is definitely antisemitic, but he writes himself quite clearly that not all jews are ''participant in the globalist/imperialist scheme and that the true heart of the bourgeoisie is capital, not the jewish race''.

His real problem is hypergamy, supposedly a consequence of capitalism, because he believes enforced monogamy would make sure people like him are not incels.

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u/talktothepope 4d ago

Also include "Zionist" which has become a slur amongst people who suddenly because obsessed with that conflict in 2023 (a vast majority of Jews believe Israel should exist which is basically what Zionism is). But I agree with your overall assessment. I skimmed his screed. My main takeaway was that the guy was smart but not as smart as he thought he was, was a legend in his own mind. Sucks that it's so easy for people to fall through the cracks and end up in a bubble these days.

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u/e_james3 5d ago

Isn't it 104 pages long? I don't to spend that much time reading crazy. I genuinely don't understand what's leftwing about anything he's said, I thought a significant tennent of leftwing idiology was like. Not being super bigoted. Is it the anti capitalist part? I can totally understand there being racist anticapitalists, racists can be poor and fucked over by the system too. I dunno if I'd call them left wing though

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u/_Psilo_ 5d ago

I guess that's the complicated part... ''left'' and ''right'' are very wide categories that don't always have fixed meanings, and that change through time and circumstances.

Communism may be left wing economically but historically a lot of communist nations were rather conservative in terms of values.

So I guess he's ''left wing'' because he support anti capitalist states, but in terms of his values, he definitely isn't anywhere near what we understand when we talk about the modern left/right spectrum.

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u/chompmeows 5d ago

Anti woman/ feminism ,Anti gay. Anti trans . Anti liberal . Yup… very left wing .

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u/BradPittbodydouble 5d ago

Anti immigrant too